Description: This eastern woman is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, white shirt, and grey tie. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has done her best to style her gold crest to look like a famous performer. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her top black hat.

Personality: She is a Bookbinder first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has worked as a Bookbinder like her father before her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. White pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She sports chestnut long hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is a great chef.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (900 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She carries with her a set of ceremonial daggers, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Adventurer business.

History: Born to a Beggar, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman wears an entirely grey suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the west to a Miner, Heather learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp).